The relationship between body mass index and blood pressure in patients undergoing chronic hemodialysis: A reverse epidemiology in Jakarta, Indonesia.

In the general population, obesity is positively correlated with hypertension. On the other hand, there was hypothesis of "reverse epidemiology" in the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and blood pressure (BP) of hemodialysis (HD) patients. This study aimed to investigate the "reverse epidemiology" of the relationship between the two variables in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Blood Pressure Profile of Young Adults at the Faculty of Medicine Universitas Indonesia.

Background: hypertension remains a global burden. Complications of unrecognized hypertension might increase mortality as shown by a WHO 2013 report that hypertension caused 9.4 million deaths worldwide.